Fostering Resilience through Accredited Mobility for European Sustainable HE innovation Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fostering Resilience through Accredited Mobility for European Sustainable HE innovation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The COVID-19 emergency had a dramatic impact on students mobility flows, but at the same time can be a great innovation leverage for European universities to rethink students mobility in innovative ways, both regarding the use of digital technology to complement and enrich traditional mobility, and to use mobility to build important soft skills such as intercultural communication, teamwork and critical thinking. To do so, universities need to develop the capacities to design and implement blended mobility schemes that are inclusive and intercultural, and to integrate and accredit blended mobility activities as a stable component of the academic offer.

The FRAMES project aims to foster an harmonised implementation and accreditation of blended mobility among European HEIs, making the European Higher Education Area more innovative and resilient and helping universities to move from the COVID-19 emergency to sustainable innovation.

The project will do so by promoting a specific online collaboration methodology called Virtual Exchange (VE), a practice that consists of sustained, technology-enabled, people-to-people online exchange sessions in which constructive communication and interaction takes place with the support of educators or facilitators. The VE methodology has proven to work as a synergistic and complementary component of physical exchange programmes, showing that it can prepare, deepen, and extend physical exchanges, and now it is high time to work to facilitate the integration of this approach in the daily mobility activities of as many EU universities as possible.

To achieve its aim, the FRAMES project will:
1) valorise successful scenarios of accredited Virtual Exchanges, considered as an innovative, inclusive and intercultural complement to physical mobility;
2) build capacity of European HEIs to integrate and accredit Virtual Exchange as a key component of their mobility activities, towards a more inclusive and sustainable internationalisation;
3) support HEIs, European Universities and HEI Networks in creating the conditions for long term harmonised integration and accreditation of physical, blended and virtual mobility.

The project is led by the Mediterranean UniUNIMED and involves two leading organisations in the Virtual Exchange field (UniCollaboration and the Sharting Perspective Foundation), three universities (Girona, Siena and Limerick) as well as some associated partners such as the Erasmus Students Network and the Network of Public Catalan Universities.

Project Website

https://frames-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 284600 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIMED – UNIONE DELLE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITERRANEO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNICOLLABORATION – LA ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE TELECOLABORACIÓN E INTERCAMBIO VIRTUAL
• UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
• STICHTING SHARING PERSPECTIVES
• UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK